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Subject: Re: Prompt wars, revisited.
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Date: Wed, 1-Apr-87 10:53:20 EST
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In article <1500@umd5.umd.edu> zben@umd5.umd.edu (Ben Cranston) writes:
>This is what I am using now:
>
>   alias set_prompt 'set prompt="${hostname}[\\!] `dirs|sed -e '\''s| .*||'\'' -e '\''s|.*[^/]\(/[^/]*/[^/]*\)|...\1|'\''` % "'
>   set hostname=`hostname | sed -e 's/\..*//'`
>   alias cd 'cd \!*; set_prompt'
>   alias pushd 'pushd \!*; set_prompt'
>   alias popd 'popd \!*; set_prompt'
>   set_prompt

But what about us poor Korn Shell users?  Any ideas?